Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Double Bears Bento

Char Siu Bear Bento by sherimiya ♥
Char Siu Bear Bento, a photo by sherimiya ♥ on Flickr.
Yesterday in the Chinese deli both kids requested buns for their bentos. MisterMan asked for char siu bao and TinySprite wanted a hot dog bun. They both become bears with a little effort and some imagination. All I did for the bao bear is cut an oval for his muzzle and then cut that piece of brown bread (skin) in half for the two ears. The eyes and mouth are cut from nori and stuck on with honey. There's also some provolone cheese for the eyes.
The hot dog bear is made the same way, except he's snuggled up in a sleeping bag. Okay? My 4 year old seemed to buy it, but of course my 7 year old frowned, "It doesn't really look like a sleeping bag because there's no line to separate it." All right. I should have cut a sleeping bag slit. I'll try to remember that for next time. At least, he's got some butterflies that he's watching while asleep under the stars.
They have the usual sides: broccoli, carrot, tomato, corn on the cob, various berries, pluot and peach, and beautiful Okinawan purple sweet potato. This is the first kawaii bento I've made all month, since school let out. Oops! I thought I would have more time to make charaben in the summer but since the kids have been on break I've been preoccupied with other funstuffs :D Now that they're both back in organized summer programs I might start experimenting again. Or maybe I'll make a bento or two for myself for a change? ^_^

8 comments:

  1. Kawaii~~~~! Very creative with bread skin! Love the butterflies too.

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  2. So, so, so cute!! I love the ears :D Summer is misleading - I also thought I'd have tons of time to do cool bentos, etc. But I'm still just as busy, it's so not fair!

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  3. You can do very cool things with buns!

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  4. Oh I love the potato butterflies!!!

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  5. Thank you Nami! Okinawan potato is so lovely.
    Natakiya -- it means you are truly enjoying this best season of the year to its fullest. Thank you!
    Haha!! Thanks wyowoman. I'm cool with buns all right :)
    Thanks Heather :D

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  6. Amazing! :)

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  7. So cute! And that hot dog bun looks delicious! I'm so jealous - I wish I could buy stuff like that all of the time. ^^;

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  8. Thanks very much fashionandstyle and AikoVenus!

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